Monday, October 5

12:00pm Nova “Black Holes Part 1: Apocalypse (Click here for Supplemental Materials) ”

Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/black-hole-apocalypse-yj34qi/

1:00pm Native America “Part 1 – From Caves to Cosmos (Click here for Supplemental Materials)”

Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America's First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and waves off California's coast.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/from-caves-to-cosmos-lsaxwq/ (Passport Required)

Tuesday, October 6

12:00pm Nova “Black Holes Part 2: Black Hole Universe (Click here for Supplemental Materials)”

Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/black-hole-apocalypse-yj34qi/ (Starts about 57 minutes in)

1:00pm Native America “Part 2 – Nature to Nations (Click here for Supplemental Materials)”

Explore the rise of great American nations. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/nature-to-nations-mza8pb/ (Passport required)

Wednesday, October 7

12:00pm Nova “Pluto and Beyond (Click here for Supplemental Materials)”

Join the mission as the New Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly by NASA's most distant target yet. Since it explored Pluto in 2015, New Horizons is zooming toward Ultima Thule, an object four billion miles from Earth.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/pluto-and-beyond-gwcrnv/ (Passport required)

Thursday, October 8

12:00pm Secrets of the Dead “Galileo’s Moon”

Join experts as they uncover the truth behind the find of the century: an alleged proof copy of Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius," which changed our understanding of the cosmos. This copy included his signature and seemingly original watercolor paintings.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/galileos-moon-7vidcl/ (Passport required)

1:00pm Native America “Part 4 – New World Rising”

Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries of time.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/new-worlds-rising-rpy9qr/ (Passport required)

Friday, October 9

12:00pm Breakthrough: The Ideas that Changed the World “The Telescope”

Meet the brilliant minds throughout history, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, responsible for creating the telescope. Today, their invention allows humanity to reach the furthest limits of seeing 13 billion light-years out.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-telescope-xikqww/ (Passport required)

1:00pm Medicine Woman

Medicine Woman interweaves the lives of Native American women healers of today with the story of America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915). The one-hour PBS documentary produced by and about women, features historic and contemporary profiles of female healers, starting with Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/medicine-woman-full-episode/